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Jo Ellison

Deputy Editor, FT Weekend & HTSI Editor

Jo Ellison is the FT’s HTSI editor. She was educated at Edinburgh University where she read history. Prior to joining the FT, in August 2014, she was the features director of British Vogue. Her column appears on the Life & Arts pages.
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  • Saturday, 31 May, 2025
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  • Saturday, 24 May, 2025
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    Fifty years after Bruce Chatwin embarked on his ‘peculiar, dotty’ bestseller, the South American wilderness still calls

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  • Friday, 16 May, 2025
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  • Saturday, 3 May, 2025
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  • Saturday, 26 April, 2025
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    Grace Wales Bonner’s purpose, William Kentridge’s work ethic, Kirsty Wark’s Glasgow, and Sugen Gopal’s perfect roti

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  • Saturday, 19 April, 2025
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  • Saturday, 12 April, 2025
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    The two-faced truths of the modern beauty standard

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  • Saturday, 5 April, 2025
    HTSI
    HTSI editor’s letter: the beauty and brutality of the Boat Race

    Plus, bohemian luxury in Milan and an Egyptian homecoming

  • Thursday, 3 April, 2025
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    Minimal, boho, itsy-bitsy or sporty — your quest for great women’s swimwear ends here

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  • Saturday, 29 March, 2025
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    The perfect palliative balm of Grey’s Anatomy

    A medical drama celebrates 20 years of sex and surgery

    A group of doctors in scrubs and white coats being led through a hospital doorway by a black woman doctor
  • Saturday, 22 March, 2025
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    This spring property special takes in a perfect palazzo, rugged restorations in the Hebrides and a Marais apartment packed with Jean Prouvé

    From left: Barbara Husted Werner, Martin Werner, Rolf Hay and Mette Hay at the  entrance of Villa Colucci in Puglia
  • Saturday, 22 March, 2025
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    Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, it’s off to woke we go

    As ‘Snow White’ shows, some fairy tales are simply irredeemable

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  • Saturday, 15 March, 2025
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    Five years after Covid, I still don’t want to see you

    The joy of being antisocial

    A sign painted on concrete in yellow of a man and woman with an arrow between them as a warning to maintain a safe distance
  • Friday, 14 March, 2025
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    Former Balenciaga designer was appointed to turn around luxury group’s biggest brand

    Demna Gvasalia is seated at a table
  • Saturday, 8 March, 2025
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    The elegant new tailoring, Willy Chavarria’s inclusive America, and the greatest shirtmakers in the world

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  • Saturday, 1 March, 2025
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    Small sustainable adjustments, a fashionable tour of Warsaw and a pilgrimage to Panzer’s

    The counter at Panzer’s deli, St John’s Wood, London
  • Saturday, 1 March, 2025
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